Hungry and Starving : Voices of the Great Soviet Famine, 1928-1934 / James R. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, James R., 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collectivization of agriculture.

Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Stalin's collectivization of Soviet Russia's agriculture resulted in the deaths of at least ten million people through starvation and associated diseases between 1928 and 1934. Hungry and Starving explores primary accounts of the Great Soviet Famine on the part of both its perpetrators and its sufferers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Tables

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration

Prologue: The 1928–34 Famine in Perspective

1 A Special Famine

2 A Hidden Famine

3 A Natural Famine?

4 An Unnatural Famine?

5 A Manifold Famine

6 The Relatively Worst Case: Kazakhstan

7 The Absolutely Worst Case: The Ukraine – The North Caucasus

Epilogue: The 1928–34 Famine in Retrospect

Glossary

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Gibson, James R. Hungry and Starving

ISBN:

9780228020004

022802000X

9780228020011

0228020018